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So for many years I've been growing in soil and using mixes and matches of nutrients experimenting with good results. Decided a year ago to give biobizz a go and been doing well with the range. Last week though, the sobering reality that Biobizz, the bloom specifically is sold out and fast selling out across the country. What a bummer... There are issues at DAFF and the re-registration is causing an import delay I guess. This puts me back where I'm going to be using a blend of products again once I run out of Biobizz. With so many that are going to be facing the same issues I thought I'd share the blend here so you can also mix your own should you want to. But first... All the disclaimers This is not an all organic fertilizer blend. The bulk of the phosphates and potassium are derived from MKP. (I know all the strictly vegan okes are screaming now... I don't have time to ferment bones and fruits etc... P is P, and K is K to me, and using MKP in very low doses works in organics.) This is a blend of already registered and readily available products. It's going to set you back about R400, and will last a long time. There is nothing special about this blend. I have literally taken each of the suppliers recommended dosages for 1000l, and combined them with 830ml distilled water. So this 1l treats 1000l water, or 1ml/1l. What you need: 20ml Amino mix 40ml Elixer humates 40ml Elixer fulvates 40ml Sea Rock 30g MKP 830ml Distilled water All of the above blends to a dark liquid, with no precipitation reactions, and provides roughly (based on supplier supplied data) 0.3g/kg N 10.7g/kg P 10g/kg K Plus the aminos, humates, fulvates, hormones and other micros. I have used this blend in conjunction with any fish hydrolysate and mollasses with great results. Edit: After recently getting feedback from a grower who measures his input EC to his organics, found his EC reading was lower than usual so he bumped up the EC using only the bloom blend. That quite simply locked his plants up. This bloom blend does not work on its own. You have to use a fish hydrolysate and mollases. This blend being partly salts, is meant to be used as follows: 1ml fish hydrolysate, 1ml molasses, and 1ml of this bloom blend per 1l of water, with every watering. It's a matter of constant micro fertigation to sustain a healthy plant.... Being over eager and over feeding does not mean a yield increase.

I do not even own a pH pen anymore, and I haven't checked my pH ever using organics. A properly buffered medium works in synergy with the microbes to regulate pH

@Bay Seeds was generous enough to send us a crap load of sample packs while we wait for their new stock, so to keep the generosity going, we will send out 5 giveaways and cover the shipping. First 5 comments will each get a pack. Seeds are 3 seed packs and a mixture of pure lemon jedi og, lemon jedi cross with strawberry couch and mandarin cookies.

@GGG Picture of my outdoor, No idea on the strain, Seeds were given to me from a mate Indoor is nothing to share, planted the double choc yesterday and the Gnomo only just started peeking through the soil.

So you do not PH your feed with BioBizz? In coco, one certainly wants to adjust PH and there is nothing to buffer the PH unlike in most soil - but you know this already. What makes life easier for me in terms of adjusting PH is my automatic watering system and when I mix nutes, it is in larger quantities and then the full quantity of nutes gets PH'd and lasts a few days before I need to do it again. Does not take particularly long to adjust the PH, but it is an extra step. About an extra 60 seconds to adjust the PH. If adding silicone though, it can throw things out of whack a bit but just requires a bit more PH down. When I was growing organically, I ended up with PH lockout and had to start adjusting the PH of my nute mixtures. So for me, I have kinda been doing it regardless of whether its organic or not. I have said it before in other threads, for the average home grower who does indoor grows. I do not see much benefit in growing with organic nutes and in soil. I know it is the most popular way for the average home grower, but I do feel marketing is partly to blame for this. I won't be going back to organics anytime soon, not for my indoor plants and currently I do not grow outdoors.

Perhaps this is a good opportunity for some home growers to scrap the organics and move over to the dark side with some fully synthetic nutes

@Cannabist doing the most out here! this is basically them right now ...but keeping local

Haven't used a pen or any Ph up or down for a very loooong time and not planning on making my life more complicated. I like things easy and simple Have a stock of 12 liter each.. Grow and Bloom.. I hope they re-register before I run out

Its a book, called how plants work by Linda Chalker, Yes they kill them like a bacterial pesticide, The quantities which you are using definitely makes a difference like with everything. So if you have amendments in your soil made up of mineral and organic matter, you will likely have microbes come in from thin air, and set up shop on the food source regardless, you may hinder the system but do the benefits outweigh the downs. And they will continue to operate and regulate ph etc. Inert mediums, complete different story.

The only issue I have with going with salts is the need to adjust pH all the time. I started growing in coco using salts.. Results were good, bigger buds than organics for sure, but the mission that is pH adjusting has me stuck on a mainly organic approach.

You'd be surprised how many people use these products in combination already. It's just easier to weigh out dosages for 1000l than to try and measure micro doses for a 10l watering can. @Gloriosa superba Yeah I've had my fair share of DAFF. The hoops and red tape and waiting is ridiculous. That's why I'd rather just run diy again until hopefully biobizz comes back.

@Bay Seedsdamn dude you guys rocking this boat! @CannabistThanks for the work you guys putting in to get us a local's list all in one place!

Thanks @Bay Seeds and @Cannabist for your generosity. WOOHOO!

Need everyone to hold thumbs. Last week in veg and moved outside for flower. Let’s all hope it’s a girl Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

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Evening growmies.. The stepchildren are showing signs of new growth and I decided to pot them up... normally when I see propper new growth it goes along with roots... well when I tried.. no roots yet.. so back into their little dome cups they went..

Every morning man, every morning I walk into the shade house and hope. She's been in flower 9 weeks. Sent from my DRA-LX5 using Tapatalk

But smaller buds!! i also have to ph my water feed before i use ut... but i have a mental system in place where it take me maybe 15 seconds. i know i need 2ml ph down in 40l to bring my solution to between 5.8 and 6.1 when salts are already in the mix...so i dont even test anymore...maybe once a month if im feeling frisky

Holy shit thats a sweet pic man!! welcome and enjoy!!

I am getting more and more irritated, that nothing is stock anymore... and simply start to not even look local anymore, cant be good for businesses down here. Have the issue with EcoDepo... is no depo, orders out for over three weeks. And Eco... they must hate mother earth one shitload. Ordered 3 products in 2 orders. Solar charger, 2 300 watt panels and a 200ah gelcell battery. Orders within 24 hours. So asked, can you pool both orders. No, cant, different warehouses... warehouse has a different meaning to them... means seller, they use "warehouse". Got a tracker for the charger, came last week, cheapest and lightest item by far, so easy to mail fast. The panels and battery come from the same seller, also unable to pool. 2 trackers... why cant they pool?? Why drive around that often? I try to reduce my co2 output and if you order 10 items with Ecodepo in one order, they might send you 10 trackers and drive 10 times the way to you, that has nothing to do with Eco . Total head scratcher... will never use those guys again, that is for sure. I order my solar setup now directly from the producers and skip local. Sad.. but i refuse to pay for somebody just ordering from outside, can do that myself without extra cost.

Awesome, thanks @Bay Seeds and @Cannabist!

Welcome aboard man. Hope you enjoy your stay and that you can tap the valuable information shared on the forum. I know I have learned a lot. Great picture as well.

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Congrats guys, all 5 spots taken Will get in touch later today for delivery details

This is something which has intrigued me, unfortunately I do not have the means to see what is actually happening with the microbes. Do you have a link to the article? Is it the nutes themselves which have a negative affect on the microbes or is it perhaps the lack of a food source for the microbes?

I've never done synthetic nutes and soil, or even considered it, but I suppose it should be similar to synthetics and coco although the coco should drain and dry faster than the soil. Thinking about it now, if you are using pots, you could maybe mix in some perlite with the soil then use the synthetic nutes. But if your tree were stuck in the ground, would you ever consider synthetic nutes?

It is cool in that regard, however I find Tapatalk to be very iffy with certain forums. Some forums I just no longer consider using unless I can browser them on my PC. Logs me out of them, does not load on tapatalk and times out but is perfectly fine on PC.

Starke Ayres lol, yep biobizz not organic. Its like if people thought silica is organic too. Probably a decent amount of that in Grow. I really don't think its a issue at all though, if you need to be certified for commercial organic cultivation... etc.etc. Then make sure its all above board, but home growers trying to get the best experience out of growing, why not. Good recipe @Totemic Full bloom success!

Bloom and Grow got declared as not biological by the SA authorities.. even the rest of the world says.. it is bio fertilizer. I think is one substance inside the mix, that caused the question. One of those issues where you just shake your head.. ^^ I stocked up.. and Bloom you still find at Aeres Starke (hope I wrote it correct.. the most expensive nursery you can go, should indicate the same hehehe).. is just very expensive Bloom.

Whaaaat. Thank you @Bay Seeds and @Cannabist

RIP Bunny Wailer. April 10th 1947 - 2 March 2021.

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Only a pleasure bro

6 weeks since pop, beginning of week 4 on the feeding chart. might have to stretch the feed of week 4 and 5 over the time of 4 weeks just to fill up the tent, things are going quite slow. topped and pulled the girls to the side so they can bush out

@Dookie69 we've phased out the classifieds from the forums and it now has its own dedicated area on the website. Therefore it isn't available on Tapatalk and quite likely never will be unfortunately. Have a go at our website on mobile. You can add a shortcut on your homescreen with Google Chrome, if you use Android.

yea i was... i forget tapatalk exists haha i tried it for a bit, but liked the mobile site so much more. so now i bounce between the desktop site and the mobile site. have you tried the mobile site?

Thanks bud. Yeah quite the master piece. Gonna initiate it with Glamberry from @Bay Seeds in a short while. [emoji1786][emoji109] Sent from my DRA-LX5 using Tapatalk

The way I grow has evolved around my breeding. The idea of breeding in a controlled environment, consistancy in every input is key to replicate expression. So considering all, I split the plants life cycle into a rule of 3. 0-3 weeks - Embryo to seedling 3-6 weeks - Early veg, plant is focused on root development. 6-9 weeks - Veg, Plant has reached sexual maturity and is building on itself. Flip to 12/12 9-12 weeks - Preflower. Florigen hormone level drive the plant into flowering. 12-15 weeks - Peak Flowering. In this time the plant is going to produce all the floral mass it can in an attempt to get pollinated. (Now you can push plants past this and get more yield, but you are altering the bud shape as fox tails, top bulging etc.) 15-18 weeks - Ripening phase. Any pollination in this time is unlikely to produce viable seed, as the plant has reached its peak and the last of the calyxes start to swell. 18-21 weeks - Harvest window. Short flowering varieties will be ready with milky trichomes at 18, longer flowering at 21.

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